Superbowl

MacAndCheese

I know i'm probably going to get flamed for liking American sports, but it's the Superbowl this weekend so I shall be staying up 'til stupid o'clock in the morning on Sunday.

Even better my favourite team is in this year, come on Saints!

Anyone else watching the sporting event of the year?

cat_with_no_tail

I'll be up too. As always.

Splottboy

Trained/played 3 seasons with the Essex/Colchester Gladiators, wide out, c-back.

Had a trial with Euro team in B'ham. John Elway's dad was the Coach.

I ran some practice patterns, and he shouted "Hey, everybody...I want you all to run your patterns like THAT guy!" I dropped every ball after, as I was in shock...DOH!!!

'84 Bears my team, with Walter Payton the BEST player ever.

xstrathyx

was a mahooosive 49ers fan when i was young.

Like Jerry Rice and Joe Montana.

Used to like the Superbowl, just didnt like working 3 hrs later though.

Should be a good game this year

projectsome

This game seems to have caught on alot more over here. If someone wants to write a 40 page document on how the heck you play the game I'll watch as I'll be awake!!!

montevideoguy

I watched the one last year and it bored the life out me and the wife. Then I wake up the next day and find all the news agencies proclaiming it as the most exciting superbowl ever....


Not even Bruce managed to save it

Splottboy

Easy: You got 4 chances to go 10yds, if not, opposition get the ball.
You can score by a Touchdown, penalty and point after touchdown.

Special Team: These come on for action when there are "specialised" tactics or skills required.

Line of scrimmage: Players line up, attacking team stop defence getting to the QB, or make "holes" for the runners. Defence try to get to the QB/Runners and rip their heads off!!
Secondary, where the fast guys try to catch the ball and defence try to rip their heads off.

4 quarters of 15 min each. SIMPLES!!!!

xstrathyx

that is actually a very good account of American Football.

everytime i see simples i laugh my head off

Splottboy wrote:

Easy: You got 4 chances to go 10yds, if not, opposition get the ball.
You can score by a Touchdown, penalty and point after touchdown.

Special Team: These come on for action when there are "specialised" tactics or skills required.

Line of scrimmage: Players line up, attacking team stop defence getting to the QB, or make "holes" for the runners. Defence try to get to the QB/Runners and rip their heads off!!
Secondary, where the fast guys try to catch the ball and defence try to rip their heads off.

4 quarters of 15 min each. SIMPLES!!!!

cat_with_no_tail

Splottboy wrote:

4 quarters of 15 min each. SIMPLES!!!!

Except that due to the constant changing of the field between Offence and defence, the hour long game becomes several hours with 3 times more adverts than game time and an overly long half time show.

I think this is where some British fans get bored and drift off. The yanks are used to it now but we're not. We sort of miss the point that Superbowl Sunday in the States is a massive event in its own right and the game is just a part of the whole thing.

Personally, I dont mind it. The endless adverts are just another excuse to go grab another beer

projectsome

xSTRATHYx wrote:

that is actually a very good account of American Football.

everytime i see simples i laugh my head off

Splottboy wrote:

Easy: You got 4 chances to go 10yds, if not, opposition get the ball.
You can score by a Touchdown, penalty and point after touchdown.

Special Team: These come on for action when there are "specialised" tactics or skills required.

Line of scrimmage: Players line up, attacking team stop defence getting to the QB, or make "holes" for the runners. Defence try to get to the QB/Runners and rip their heads off!!
Secondary, where the fast guys try to catch the ball and defence try to rip their heads off.

4 quarters of 15 min each. SIMPLES!!!!

I shall watch (or attempt to) and if I fail to understand the game I'll be back here with my angry face

Stoo61

shite sport

turnercraig

More importantly - the rugby is on this weekend

projectsome

turnercraig wrote:

More importantly - the rugby is on this weekend

Isn't that just a backwards version of american football albeit with less sanitry towels?

I

turnercraig

No

Daz555

MacAndCheese wrote:

Anyone else watching the sporting event of the year?

Yes, in June.

blister pus

I haven't got the patience for it.

So............Dogsbowl

MacAndCheese

I have to admit even though I'm a fan and always watch the superbowl live, It is the only game each year that I watch live because the number of breaks can be really tedious and normally I just watch the highlights!

Glad to see there's a few other fans out there!

cat_with_no_tail

Oh, and the replica shirts are really good for summer riding too.

Nice and roomy so you can get pads on under (if you swing that way) and very well ventilated.
I've got a few old ones I use, better than most of my bike specific stuff for keeping cool.

thekickingmule

Isn't American Football just a wimps version of Rugby though? The game seems to stop every time someone gets tackled, meaning tall the body armour they wear is pointless.

cat_with_no_tail

thekickingmule wrote:

Isn't American Football just a wimps version of Rugby though?

No, not really.

Much as I loveRugby, some of these guys are fkn NUTS!

Splottboy

Wimps?! Tell that to some 280lb lineman!
We had one guy turn up at 6ft 10ins, and I saw a Canadian running back run 25yds with 3 guys hanging off him in RAF Lakenheath.. Tuff dudes, Real tuff dudes.

Had concussion, broken finger, cracked ribs, torn groin, and numerous soft-tissue injuries, from American Footbal.
Concussion, soft-tissue broken finger from Rugby Union.
( Conclusion: American Football a little bit tougher...)

Agree that 3 - 4 hr game a bit boring, then 6 hrs of TdF road racing can be slow too.

Richie63

Might watch- haven't seen one in ages great excuse for all night drinkies

Hope miss Jackson does the opening number again :shock:

adb1006

If you're staying up Sunday night for some sport, you should make it for UFC 109 on ESPN!!!

thekickingmule

Splottboy wrote:

Wimps?! Tell that to some 280lb lineman!

fair enough, I wouldn't call them wimps really, but I still prefer Rugby. Just as rough, but minus the protection, a proper British way of dealing with things
I think I prefer the fact it doesn't go on so long either, oh, and that Rugby is played by several nations, as opposed to a couple

supersonic

They may be tough, but wear armour and don't get people stamping on their heads or ripping their ears off ;-)

Rugby all the way!

Chaz.Harding

Firstly, rugby all the way.

Now, American football is more severe. They have body-armour on, so it tricks the mind into thinking you're more protected than you really are.

So they go in harder. And, subsequently go in more often. Not to mention to be tackled, you don't need to have the ball... It could come at any time.

I've not watched any American football games right through, but what I do know is that it's very slow play. In that, I mean that they do 1 'set' or whatever it's called, then as soon as play stops, they stop the clock, and set up for another different tactic. The guys who play, 99% of the time, ARE NOT FIT. Sure, they are freakin' massive, and can sprint 100m in seriously fast times, but that's it. They need alot of time to recover.

Not like rugby, where it's constantly running about on the pitch, unless someone is injured / commited an offence, but even then, it's not stopped the game, it's only momentarily paused.

Rugby is more difficult in all aspects. The American footballers remind me of robots - highly rehearsed and choreographed performances, for a very short period of time, and thats it. However, when they get smashed... BOY do they get smashed!!!

_Ferret_

I don't like rugby much but I wear body armour.
And some people say american football is just rugby with pads. I'm confused, should I like it or not?

supersonic

I think the yanks just like inventing games that only they are good at and can understand.

Of course we have cricket - everybody understands that. WTF is baseball about?

cat_with_no_tail

supersonic wrote:

WTF is baseball about?

We've got a few yanks at work and good lord can they ever bang on about baseball. They've tried explaining it to me a few times before but I still dont get it.

Oh, and they dont like it when you tell them "so, it's essentially just like rounders then? Bit girly isnt it?"

From a fans perspective, Baseball seems to be almost entirely about ststistics, facts and figures. Batting averages and such.

I know what you mean though, it's like they took cricket, and then said "you know what y'all? We SUCK at this thar game, so let's change the rules, make i as stupidly complicated as is humanly possible, then create a world series that only we can enter/win"

_Ferret_

Is baseball the one where they have a world series.....?(where only america is the only country in it..)

The Northern Monkey

American Football. A very simple sport, ruined because idiots (read: Americans) made it far too complicated.